False head for cigars



Feb. 12 1924. 1,483,140

M. WERTHEIMER FALSE HEAD FOR CIG-ARS Filed NOV. 13, `1922 f @zwi/WW2 zw/f Paiement Feb. 12, 1924.

STATES MILTON WERTHEIMER, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

FALSE HEAD FOR CIGARS.

Application filed November 13, 1922. Serial No. 600,596.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON NERTHEIMER, a citizen of the United States, residing a't Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful False Head for Cigars, o-f which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a use in finishing cigars.

As is well known to those skilled in the manufacture of cigars by machinery the bunch` is inclosed within a wrapper of pe culiar configuration having a terminal head adapted to be slit and yapplied to the head end of the cigar to provide a finishtherefor. It has been found in practice, however, that a large percentage of machine made cigars are delivered with the head end not properly nished because of faulty application or mutilation of the head portion of the wrapper. These faulty cigars are separated from those cigars that have been properly finished and are subsequently repaired or finished by hand, specially trained operators being necessary for this purpose. Each operator tears from a leaf of tobacco a small portion of the leaf which is necessarily of irregular contour, and carefully positions said portion of the leaf upon the head end of the cigar where it is applied by the use of paste. No two false heads are alike and application of this portion of tobacco leaf requires not only! careful placing of the same so that it will not be undesirably conspicuous, but also the removal of surplus material and the slitting of the leaf before it is finally applied. As some machine made cigars are left7 wrapped and others are right wrapped it will be apparent that only a well trained and skillful operator can so apply a false head in the old way and produce a cigar the wrapper of which is apparently without fault.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a false head of standard size and contour which can be applied by any one without long and careful training, can be used with either left or right wrapped cigars and which, when in position will give the cigar a well finished apa pearance equal'to that of a cigarthat has been properly wrapped by a machine.

A further object is to provide a false head which, when used, will enable the operator to finish a greater number of cigars in a given time than is possible by the old method befalse head for cause the false heads are of uniform size and can be applied without requiring the operation of tearing o a piece of tobacco, cutting off surplus material, and slitting the head during application.

Another object is to provide a false head the use of which results in a considerabley saving of stock because the false heads can be produced in quantities for use by the operator and can be cut out close together from the leaves.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel details which will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

n the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings.

Figure 1 is a plan View of a piece of tobacco leaf such as ordinarily used in applying a false head to a cigar, the false head constituting the present invention being shown cut into said piece of leaf.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the head end of a cigar wrapped in one direction and showing the false head partly applied.

Figure 3 is a similar view showing false head completely applied.

Figure 4 is a view showing the false head partly applied to a cigar wrapped oppositely to that shown in Figures 2 and 3.

Figure 5 is a similar view showing the false head completely wrapped.

Figure 6 is a detail view of a portion of a wrapper such as used upon machine made ci ars, the head being shown thereon.

igure 7 is a detail View of the false head constituting the present invention.

Figure 8 is a view of the head end of a cigar to which has been applied a false head such as used heretofore.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a substantially circular piece of tobacco leaf of the grade used for wrapping tobacco. This blank has an incision 2 extending thereinto from its margin to its center. As shown in the drawings the incision is preferably though not necessarily V-shaped.

Heretofore when it has been desired to place a false head on a cigar a piece of tobacco indicated generally at 3 in Figure 1 has been torn from a leaf and then applied as smoothly as possible to the head end of the the cigar as shown at 4 in Figure 8.y This old method of application has necessitated cutting away surplus tobacco from the false head during the finishing operation and slitting of the head so as to allow the same to lie smoothly on the cigar.

By providing a false head such as shown in Figure 7 and which, as will he apparent by referring to Figure l, requires the use of less tobacco than the old method, the operations heretofore followed are eliminated, eX- cept the one requiring the application of paste and the 'application of the false head. After the paste has been applied to the butt end of the cigar one radial edge of the false head is applied to the cigar so that the margin of the false head will extend spirally around the cigar when the application of the false head is completed. Portions of the false head will lap and adhere and a smooth finish will thus he given to the cigar so that said cigar will have the same appearance as though finished by machine. By changing the position of the false head the marginal edge thereof can be positioned so as to conform substantially with the direction in which the wrapper is placed on the cigar. A s shown in Figures 2 and 3 the false head is applied to a cigar wrapped in one direction while in Figures et and 5 the false head is shown applied to a cigai" wrapped in the opposite direction.

It has heen found in practice that by utilizing standard false heads such as herein disclosed, a considerable saving can he effected by eliminating cigars having a faulty appearance and by speeding up the production of finished cigars.

1What is claimed is:

l. false head for cigars comprising a disk having an incision extending from its margin to its center.

2. A false head for cigars comprising a disk having an angular incision extending from the margin to the center thereof.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MILTON WERTHEIMER. Witnesses:

LEs'rER I. VALENTINE, AGNEs M. JENKINS. 

